Part four: Health professions

The Minister for Health or, by delegation, the Director General of the Centre National de Gestion may also, following the opinion of a commission, made up in particular of professionals, individually authorise, where applicable, nationals of a Member State of the European Union or of another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area to practise the profession of pharmacist, in the speciality in question, who hold evidence…

By way of derogation from Article L. 4221-1 and until 31 December 2025, the Directors General of the Regional Health Agencies of Guadeloupe, Guyana and Martinique and the State Representative in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon may authorise a pharmacist who is a national of a country other than those mentioned in 2° of the same Article L. 4221-1 or who holds a pharmacy degree, regardless of the country in which the degree was…

Pharmacy students belonging to the health reserve provided for in article L. 3132-1, carrying out an activity as part of a commitment to serve in the operational reserve provided for in article L. 4211-1 of the Defence Code or required in application of articles L. 3131-8 or L. 3131-9 and having completed their second year of the second cycle of pharmacy studies may carry out the tasks authorised to pharmacists…

Subject to the provisions of article L. 4061-1, persons who have obtained the evidence of formal qualifications or authorisation required to practise the profession of pharmacist prior to their entry into the profession, and persons who have obtained their evidence of formal qualifications less than three years previously, are required to register with the department or body designated for this purpose by the Minister responsible for health. The registration of…

The organisations issuing the training qualifications shall send these qualifications to the service or organisation mentioned in article L. 4221-16, in the form of certified information. They shall also send it, in the same form, the list of pharmacy interns and students likely to practise pharmacy on a temporary basis, to be required or called up as part of the health reserve who have reached the level of training provided…

Where it is available, the certified information referred to in Article L. 4221-16-1 shall serve as supporting documents for the fulfilment of the obligations laid down in Article L. 4221-16.

In urgent cases, where a pharmacist’s continued practice exposes patients to serious danger, the Director General of the regional health agency responsible for the pharmacist’s place of practice shall immediately suspend the right to practise for a maximum period of five months. The Director General will hear the professional concerned within three days of the suspension decision. The Director General of the Regional Health Agency responsible for the professional’s place…

In addition to the company’s articles of association and any amendments thereto, pharmacists practising within a company must forward to the council of the professional body to which they belong any agreements or amendments relating to its operation, or to the relationship between partners and, where they exist, between partners and parties involved in financing the pharmacy or medical biology laboratory. These documents must be communicated within one month of…

The following are determined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat: 1° The time limit within which the committee referred to in article L. 4221-12 must issue an opinion ; 2° The composition and operation of the commission referred to in articles L. 4221-14-1 and L. 4221-14-2 and the conditions under which the person concerned is subject to a compensation measure; 3° The procedures for applying the obligation to transmit the…